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Contractors in Bungoma on the run as banks demand money

Bungoma Governor Wycliffe Wangamati. [Photo by David Njaaga/Standard]

Governor Wycliffe Wangamati has blamed the National Treasury for accumulating debt and stalled projects in the county.

Mr Wangamati said the county owed contractors up to Sh1.5 billion because Treasury was yet to release funds budgeted for development, leading to a cash crisis.

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